Police are looking for a man suspected of groping and robbing a woman in the parking lot of a convenience store early Tuesday.

The incident happened just after 1:30 a.m. at Cruizers at 728 N. Church St. near Fulton Street.

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Burlington police said the woman was putting air in a flat tire when the suspect made several cat calls at her and approached her multiple times. The man pulled the woman toward himself, grabbed her chest and buttocks and took a small amount of money from her pocket, police said.

The man kept hold of the woman until the victim made multiple pleas, police said. The suspect fled the scene in a car.

Police described the suspect as a light-skinned black man in his early to mid 20s with dreads pulled up at the crown of his head. The suspect was wearing a black baseball cap, a dark hoodie with purple writing and white and gray patterned pants, police said.

The suspect car was described as a four-door, dark early 2000s Honda with aftermarket chrome rims.

If you have information that can help solve the case, you’re asked to call Burlington police at 336-229-3503 or Alamance County-Wide Crime Stoppers at 336-229-7100.